Species Zophophilus nigerrimus (Boisduval, 1835)

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• Tenebrio nigerrimus Boisduval, J.B.A. 1835. Voyage de Découvertes de l' Astrolabe Exécuté par Ordre du Roi, pendent les Années 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, sous le Commandement de M.J. Dumont d'Urville. Faune Entomologique de l'Océan Pacifique, avec l'Illustration des Insectes Nouveaux Recueillis pendent le Voyage. Deuxième Partie. Coléoptères et autres Ordres. Paris. [254].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) (not located), New Holland.
• Tenebrio convexiusculus Hope, F.W. 1843. Continuation of a memoir containing descriptions of new species of Coleoptera from Port Essington, in New Holland. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12: 357-361 [this work is often cited as appearing in 1842 in the Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London, pages 76-80, but these Proceedings, which reprinted the above paper, were actually not published until 1845 (I. Lansbury, pers. comm. 1987)] [360].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) OUM, Pt Essington, NT.
• Meneristes servulus Pascoe, F.P. 1869. Descriptions of new genera and species of Tenebrionidae from Australia and Tasmania. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4 3: 29-45, 132-153, 277-296, 344-351 [151].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (not located), Tas. to Qld.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Carter, H.J. 1914. Notes on Australian Tenebrionidae, with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 38: 369-406 [54] (T. convexiusculus Hope, Meneristes servulus Pascoe)

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